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Precision Castparts (
PCP) pushed the Industrial Goods sector lower today making it today's featured Industrial Goods laggard. The sector as a whole closed the day up 0.1%. By the end of trading, Precision Castparts fell $1.88 (-1.1%) to $163.08 on average volume. Throughout the day, 557,910 shares of Precision Castparts exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 688,800 shares. The stock ranged in price between $162.42-$165.69 after having opened the day at $165.16 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $164.96. Other companies within the Industrial Goods sector that declined today were:
NF Energy Saving (
NFEC), down 16.1%,
Tecumseh Products Company (
TECUB), down 9.7%,
Gafisa (
GFA), down 8.7%, and
India Globalization Capital (
IGC), down 8.2%.

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Precision Castparts Corp. manufactures and sells metal components and products worldwide. Precision Castparts has a market cap of $23.74 billion and is part of the
industrial industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 18.5, below the average industrial industry P/E ratio of 18.6 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 0.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 11 analysts that rate Precision Castparts a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and six rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Precision Castparts as a
buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income and good cash flow from operations. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself.